An 18-member US business delegation led by US department of commerce deputy secretary Bruce Andrews was in Chennai on Friday for a conference organised by Indo-American Chamber of Commerce on the Centre's Smart City project. Members of the US group held detailed discussions with civic officials, industrialists and urban planners on the project

At its current state, we believe the smart home market is stuck in the 'chasm' of the technology adoption curve, in which it is struggling to surpass the early-adopter phase and move to the mass-market phase of adoption